Sound-reproducing device



M. DE CESARE SOUND REPRODUCING D EVICE Original Filed March 21, 1923HVVE VTOR. [Waflso fie Cesare,

Patented Apr. 24', 1928.

UNITED STATES 1,667,103 PATENT OFFICE.

MATTEO CESARE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO VOICES INCORPORATED,

A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

SOUND-REPRODUCING DEVICE.

Application filed March 21, 1923,

This invention relates to sound reproducing devices and moreparticularly to a novel and improved mechanical device that ispositioned within the body of a doll or toy so that when the latter ismoved or turned, a

crying sound will be reproduced.

Themain object of my invention is the provision of a mechanical soundreproducing device which is extremely simple in construction, easilyassembled, highlyeflicient in operation and use, practical,- durable,and

otherwise adapted for easy installation in various types of mechanicaltoys and dolls.

Further and more specific objects,...fea-

l5 tures and advantages will more ielearlyiflappear from the detaildescription given below taken in connection with the accompanying sheetof drawings, showing a preferred embodiment of the invention'and forminga part of this specification, and wherein;

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the device showing the bellows inits extended position.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the device when the same isinverted.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the weighted element showing. the relativearrangement of the reed and cup. 1

Referring now to the drawings wherein like reference charactersdesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

, 5 designates the body or tubular casing which encloses the soundreproducing device and is of such form as readily adapts itself foreasily securing in the body of a toy, such as a do l. Tubular bellows 6,preferably of rubber and of a length so that the top edge 7 extends overthe top end of the casing 5, is secured thereto by the "flanged cover 8overlying-the edge of the bellows and the top of the casing abovereferred to so that the cap 8 closes one end of the bellows as well asoneend of the casing.

. weighted element designated inits entirety by numeral 10 is composedof a circular discshaped weight freely tiltable in all directions in thecasing. That is, the weight 10 is not only capable of falling back andforth in the casing as the position of the device is changed, but theweight may assume different angles with respect to the casing as itmoves from one position to anotherin the casing. The weight 10 issecured by a band or ring 11 to the bottom end of the bellows 6 so as totrap the air within the bellows when -tom of said casing is preferablySerial No. 626,615. Renewed February 20, 1926.-

the same is extended to the posit-ion shown by Figure 1 of the drawings.All parts of the weighty head 10 are thus movable by gravity back andforth in the casing in a direction parallel to the axis of the casing.The weighted element 10 is thus'freely tiltable in all directionsagainst the sides of the casing. The weighted head is provided with arecess or aperture therethrough to receive a cylindrical cup 12preferably at one side thereof, said cup 12 having a recess in the sidethereof and below the weighted element 10 to receive a horizontallyextending tube 13 which forms a passage so as to communicate with theinterior of the cup and the bellows. A reed pipe having a reed 14,extending within the tube 13, controls the en try and passage of airfrom the exterior of the device and the casing 5. A guard or protector14, open at the end is positioned over the reed to protect the same. Itwill be seen that the sounding reed carried by the weight extendssubstantially parallel to the opposite faces of the weight and means areprovided extending about the reed to protect the same and forming apassageway also extending substantially parallel to the opposite facesof the weight and within which passageway the reed is located, the reedbeing'in communicationwith the aperture or opening-through the wei htwhereby the air entering or leavin tie bellows passes the reed, the airbeing a apted to pass from the reed to the opposite side of the weightas the bellows is operated. The botclosed by a meshed piece of fabric 15having apertures therethrough which is secured by a flanged ring orapertured cap 16 to the, bottom.

It will thus be seen that when the bellows is being expanded, the airwill pass into-the bellows through the reed pipe in which the reed 14 ispositioned, consequently, producing the crying sound as desired. Thatis, the reed is caused to sound when the bellows is expanded ordistended b movement of the weighty head away rom the fixed head 8.Whenever, the device is inverted, the weight 10 will tend to collapsethe bellows, as shown by Figure 2, in which instance the air will beforced out through the passage and reed. pipe. The particular sounddesired can be regulated and controlled by the size of the air passageand the cup utilized as well as the particu ar reed but the operationprimarily depends upon the movement of the weighted element 10, it beingof course understood that the length of the sound emitted, will varywith the time that it takes to completely expand the bellows. I find itparticularly advantageous to arrange and position the sound reed so thatit will sound upon expansion or elongation of the bellows (asdistinguished from compression of the bellows) in this type of devicewhere the weighty head and all parts thereof are movable back and forthin the casing in a direction parallel to the axis of the casing and thehead is freely til'table in the casing.

While I have not shown any particular means for securing or fasteningthe sound reproducing device in the doll or toy as the case maybe, inactual practice, the device is positioned so that when the roll isturned,

the weight '10 will fall by gravity with the be made.

privilege of changing the form of the deresult that the sound will beproduced.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree ofparticularity, I realize that various alterations therein may Itherefore reserve the right and tails of construction or otherwisealtering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing fromthe spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is 1. A sounding device having incombina- 86, tion a tubular casing, a tubular bellows member therein, acap closing one end of the bellows member and one end of the casingand-securing said end of the bellows member to the casing, an aperturedcap on the other end of the casing, a circular disc shaped weight, saidweight being freely tiltable in all directions in the casing, a circularmetal clamping member and clamping the other end of the bellows memberto the periphery of said circular Weight, whereby the weight may'fallback and forth in the casing as the position of thedevice is changed toalternately compress and distend the bellows member and force air outand in thereof, and a sounding reedcarried by the weight and extendingsubstantially parallel to the opposite faces of the weight, said weighthaving means extending about the reed to protect the same and forming apassageway extending substantially parallel to the opposite faces of theweight and within which assageway the reed is located, said welghthaving an opening therethrough, through which opening air is adapted toass from the reed to the opposite side of t e weight to operate the reedas the bellows member is operated. r V

2. A sounding device having in combination a tubular casing, a tubularbellows member therein, means secured to the casing adtherethroughclosing the other end of the easing, a circular disc shaped weight, saidweight being-freely tiltable in all directions in the? casing, meansclamping the other end of the bellows member to the eriphery of saidcircular weight whereby t e weight may fall back andforth in the casingas the position of the device is changed, to press and distend thebellows member and force air out and in thereof, and a sounding reedcarried by the weight and extending substantially parallel to theopposite faces of the weight, said weight having means extending aboutthe reed to protect the same and forming a passageway extendingsubstantially parallel to the opposite faces of the weight and withinwhlch passageway the reed is located, said wei ht having an openingtherethrough through which opening air is adapted to pass from the reedto the opposite side of the weight to operate the reed as the bellowsmember is operated.

' 3. A sounding device having in combination a cylindrical casing havingtwo heads .therein, one fixed with respect to the casing and the other aweighty head movable back and forth in the casing toward and from thefixed head by gravity, and freely tiltable in all directions in thecasing a tubular bellows connecting said heads w ereby the bellows willbe compressed when the movable head moves toward the fixed headand-distended when the movable head moves away alternately comarrangedso that it will be operated by air passingl into the bellows and willsoundwhen t e bellows is expanded.

4. A sounding device havin in combination a tubular bellows, a circu arhead closing one end of the bellows, a relatively movable circular headclosing the other end of the bellows, said last mentioned head beingweighted whereby it will move by gravity back and forth to compress anddistend the bellows, a reed pipe carried by the weighty head, saidweighty head being freely tiltable against the sides of the casing, saidreed ipe being arranged so that it will be operated by air passing whenthe bellows are expanded.

5. A sounding device having in combination a tubular casing, a tubularbellows in said casing, a head closing one end of the be]- lows andfixed with respect to the casing, a weighted head closing the other endof the bellows, all parts of which head are movable by gravity back andforth in the casing in a direction parallel to the axis of the casing.

into the bellows and will sound and said weighted head being freelytiltable feed pipe having a sound reed so positioned said weighted headbeing. freely tiltable in that the reed will sound by reason of air alldirections in the casin ,one of said heads passing therethrough into thebellows when having an aperture theret rough, a reed pipe the bellows isexpanded by movement of the associated with said aperture, said reedpipe weighted head away from said fixed head. having a sound reed sopositioned that the 6. A sounding device having in combinareed willsound by reason of air passing tion a tubular casing, a tubular bellowsin therethrough into the bellows when the belsaid casing, a head closingone end of the lows is expanded bymovement of the weightbellows andfixed with respect to thecasing, ed head away from said fixed head, andan a weighted head closing the other end of the apertured cap for theendiof-the casing opbellows, all parts of which head are movable positethe fixed head. by gravity back and forth in the casing in a Intestimony whereof I afiix mysignatu're. direction parallel to the axisof the casing, MATTEO DE CESARE. [11. 8.]

